Mexico News Daily: Vaccination against dengue fever could soon become a reality and Mexico could well be the first country to approve its use.
The French drugmaker Sanofi says its vaccine reduced cases of the disease — sometimes known as breakbone fever — by 60.8% in its second major clinical trial. Read more.
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Showing posts with label public health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public health. Show all posts
Jul 19, 2014
Mexico’s Health Care Professionals Rise Up
Frontera NorteSur: A new social movement erupting in Mexico this summer is exposing the long-running deficiencies in the nation’s public health care system.
Led by #YoSoy17 and #YoSoy Medico 17, the movement began as a reaction to legal charges filed against 16 Guadalajara doctors for alleged medical negligence in the death of a 15-year-old patient, Roberto Gallardo, who was treated at a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital during 2009-2010.
Led by #YoSoy17 and #YoSoy Medico 17, the movement began as a reaction to legal charges filed against 16 Guadalajara doctors for alleged medical negligence in the death of a 15-year-old patient, Roberto Gallardo, who was treated at a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) hospital during 2009-2010.
May 2, 2013
A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation
Huffington Post
By Irwin Redlener
April 30, 2013
After years of postponing the inevitable, the U.S. is finally on the verge of reforming our dysfunctional immigration policies. For millions of immigrant families who have committed themselves to building better lives for themselves and their communities, change cannot come too soon. And for the children in these families, their hopes for the future are very much part of America's future.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. This population was explicitly excluded from the benefits of the president's health reform initiative. Read more.
By Irwin Redlener
April 30, 2013
After years of postponing the inevitable, the U.S. is finally on the verge of reforming our dysfunctional immigration policies. For millions of immigrant families who have committed themselves to building better lives for themselves and their communities, change cannot come too soon. And for the children in these families, their hopes for the future are very much part of America's future.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. This population was explicitly excluded from the benefits of the president's health reform initiative. Read more.
Nov 11, 2012
The coca-colization of Mexico
Radio Netherlands Worldwide November 11, 2012
“It is a strange drink because it’s black. I like it more than other soft drinks”, says a teenager in a fast food restaurant in Mexico City, sipping from a cola drink. A girl next to him says: “The very first thing I do when I get up in the morning is take a soda from the fridge”.
Mexico is the world’s fattest country. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that more Mexicans are obese than in any other country. Consumption of soda and carbonated drinks, together with fast food, are a major contributing factor in this growing obesity epidemic.
The numbers are terrifying. According to Alejandro Calviño, president of ‘El Poder del Consumidor’ (The Power of the Consumer), “excess weight and obesity are the cause of the most prevalent life-threatening diseases in Mexico”. An estimated 70% of Mexican adults are overweight or obese - one in three women and one in men. Mexico is also the country with the highest number of children between 5 and 11 years who are overweight.
“It is not a problem of aesthetics; it's a problem of public health because the death rate as a consequence of diabetes is 80 per 100.000 inhabitants. This causes very high costs that the Government is not able to deal with”, says Calviño. Read more.
“It is a strange drink because it’s black. I like it more than other soft drinks”, says a teenager in a fast food restaurant in Mexico City, sipping from a cola drink. A girl next to him says: “The very first thing I do when I get up in the morning is take a soda from the fridge”.
Mexico is the world’s fattest country. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that more Mexicans are obese than in any other country. Consumption of soda and carbonated drinks, together with fast food, are a major contributing factor in this growing obesity epidemic.
The numbers are terrifying. According to Alejandro Calviño, president of ‘El Poder del Consumidor’ (The Power of the Consumer), “excess weight and obesity are the cause of the most prevalent life-threatening diseases in Mexico”. An estimated 70% of Mexican adults are overweight or obese - one in three women and one in men. Mexico is also the country with the highest number of children between 5 and 11 years who are overweight.
“It is not a problem of aesthetics; it's a problem of public health because the death rate as a consequence of diabetes is 80 per 100.000 inhabitants. This causes very high costs that the Government is not able to deal with”, says Calviño. Read more.
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